The sign may say there’s no food left, but the BDT kitchen team cranked out enough for about 200 on Saturday, with plenty of signature chicken cordon bleu to spare.
The veggie pan gets doused with something very hot as the kitchen assembly line, which BDT has refined into a well-oiled machine, manage to serve hundreds of dinners within about a one-hour window.
Jessica Hindsley is a popular local actor who doesn’t have a role in the current BDT production, but is among the many actors who keeping some income coming in by populating the wait staff.
Backstage, the props shelf includes a key wedding-cake top, and a wicked heavy casserole.
Here’s the view from atop the upstairs (I started to type “upstage”) backstage area, looking down on producer Michael J. Duran.
Years ago, Michael J. Duran made more room on the stage by moving his live orchestra backstage to an upstairs corner that looks a bit like its own recording studio. For this show, the only musical accompaniment is provided by veteran musical conductor Neal Dunfee. So he’s upstairs all by his lonesome, watching the show on a monitor that rests atop his piano.
Backstage, ingenue Heather Marie Doris prepares to take the stage for her fourth role at BDT. Here, she plays a sweet college-age daughter who finds time to help out at church with her mother and mull her 1964 marital prospects.
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